Carrying and setting-up machine for bottles and the like.



No. 875,009. PATENTED DEC. 31, 190.77.

I H.. J. STIEBBL. I CARRYING AND SETTING UP MACHINE FOR BOTTLES AND THELIKE.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28, 1907.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 31, 1907'.

Application filed June 28. 1907. Serial No. 381.329.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY J. STIEBEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certainnew and useful Carrying and Setting-Up Machine for Bottles and the Like,of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description aswill enable any one skilled in the art to which it appertains to makeand use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a machine forearand setting up bottles or othersimilar artic es and is especially ada ted to be used in connection withan annealing furnace.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one form of machine madein accordance with my invention, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinalsection, Fig. 2 is a view partly diagrammatic showing the means forshifting the driving mechanism from one carrier to another, Fig. 3 is atop plan view, Fig. in an enlarged sectional view showing a de tail ofconstruction, Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are enlarged detailed views of theholder, Fig. 8 is an end view and Fig. 9 is an enlarged view showing adetail of construction.

Like marks of reference refer .to similar parts in the several views ofthe drawings.

represents the walls of the annealing furnace, which isof the usualform. Situated within the annealing furnace 15 is the usual 511 port inthe form of an endless carrier. T s supportconsists of a number ofmetallic plates 16 pivoted: to each other and mounted upon a air ofoctagonal drums 18 and 19 res ectively. Each of the plates 16 is provideat its forward-end with a projection or finger piece 20, the object of'which will be hereinafter explained. The shaft 21 of the drum 18 isextended through the forward wall of the furnace l5 and has secured toit a beveled geariwheel 22, as shown in Fig. 3. This gear wheel 22meshes with a second gear wheel 23 loosely mounted upon a shalt 24. Thisshaft 24 has rigidly mounted upon it a toothed clutch member 25 and thewheel 23 has rigidly secured to it a similar toothed clutch member 26.Loosely mounten upon the shaft 24 between the clutch mom era 25 and 26is a longitudinally movable clutch member 27 adapted to engage with oneor the other of the members 25 and 5h. This clutch member 27 has mountedupon it a gear wheel 28 which meshes with a gear wheel 29 driven by amotor 30. The gear wheel 29 is made considerably wider than the wheel28, so that the clutch member carrying the wheel 28 may movelongitudinally on its shaft without disengaging the gear 28 from thegear 29. The clutch mem ,ber 27' is engaged by a bifurcated lever 31ivoted at 32 and normally held in position by means of a springf33 so asto hold the clutch member 27, in engagement with the clutch member 25,as shown in Fig. 2. The lever 31 also has pivoted to it an arm 34carrying a core 35 adapted to be drawn into a solenoid 36 so as to movethe clutch member 27 in the opposite direction and engage it with theclutch member 26. y Rigidly mounted u on' the end of the shaft 24 oposite to t e clutch mechanism above descri ed is a sprocket wheel 38.This sprocket Wheel 38 is surrounded by n sprocket 0 sin 39 forming anendless carrier. This sprocket chain 39 also surrounds a similarsprocket wheel 40 within the annealing 'furnace 15. Secured to thesprocket chain 39 are a number of carriers which will now be described.The links of the chain 39, at the points where the carriers are to besupplied, are provided with lugs 41. Through these'lugs 41 passes a rod42. Mounted upon the rod 42, at each side of the lugs 41, are a pair ofrollers 43. Adjacent to the end of the inner roller 43 the rod 42 has riidly secured to it a collar 44. Adjacent to t e collar 44 the rod 42 hasslidingly mounted upon it a sleeve 45. This sleeve 45 has pivoted to itat 46 a cradle 47 adapted to receive the bottle or other article to becarried. The cradle 47 is mounted upon the sleeve 45 so as to have aslight lateral rocking movement, but is held in its normal position bymeans of the spring 48 interposed between the cradle and the sleeve,

slides longitudinally upon the rod 42 .and is provided with a slot 42 inwhich slides a pin 50 rigidly secured in the rod 42. At the end of theslot 49 the sleeve 45 is provided with a notch 51 adapted to engagethepin 50 and hold the sleeve 1n its extended position. The spring 52 issecured at one end of a pin .53 in tie collar 44 and at the other to apin 54 carried by the sleeve 45 and holds said sleeve 45 in itsretracted position except when the detent 51 engages with the pin 50.

In order to set the sleeve 45 in its extended as best shownin Fig. 6.-The sleeve 45 The plate 5.7 has secured to it one end of a coil spring61, the oppositeend of which sur rounds the pin 54 on the sleeve 45.This spring 61 tends to rotate the sleeve 45 so t at when the sleeve isextended, as will be hereinafter described, it is moved into osition toengageth'epinSO with the note 51.

The bottom of the cradle 47 is provided with a roller 62, and the u perportion of the body of the cradle is provlded with a passage 63,

the purpose of both of which will after described.

70 is a vertical shaft upon the upper end of be hereinwhich is rigidlymounted a disk 71 and this disk 71 carries a series of arms 72, the endsof which are adapted to be struck by the bottle carried in the cradle47. The object of the opening 63 in the cradle 47 is to allow the arms-7 2 to pass through the cradle when it is empty so that the disk 71will not be rotated.

: When, however,.a bottle is contained in the cradle, the bottle willstrike the arm and rovtate the disk 71 through a predetermined Rigidlymounted on the lower end distance. of the shaft 70 is a gear wheel 73,which in turn meshes with a wheel 74.v The gear wheel 73 is preventedfrom moving backwards by means of a pawl 75, as shown in Fig; 2. Thegear wheel 74 carries an arm 76 having a beveled end and adapted to makecontact with a sliding member 77. This vmember 77 carries a contact 78adapted to I engage with a contact 79 and thus complete the electriccircuit 80 which passes through the solenoid 36 and is supplied from anysuitable source 81.

Adjacent to the sprocket wheel 38 is situated a bottle receiver shown indetail in Fig. 4. This bottle receiver is arranged to be adjusted bymeans of a bolt 86 passing through a slot 87 in the base of the receiverand through the clamping strip 88. The upper portion of the receiver 85is made the proper form to receive and hold a ho tle-89but at-the sametime to allow the cradle to pass upward through it so as to engage thebottle. A spring mounted piece 90 acts as a buffer for the bottle as itpasses into the receiver and atthe same time enables the bottom of thecradle'47 carrying the roller 62 to properly pass into position belowthe bottom of the bottle.

The bottles 89 are delivered to the'receiver 85. by means of the chute91 65 of the usual form. 'Carried by the shaft 24 -72, thus partiallyrotating the disk 71.

adaptedto engage with the antifriction roller 56 on the stud-55 to setthe sleeve 45 andcradle 47 in their extended positions.

The upper end of the upright 92 has secured to it at one end a guide 94,the opposite end of which is secured to a similar upright 95 carriedupon the shaft ofthe wheel 40. A second guide 96 is carried by uprights97 supporting the opposite ends of the shafts carrying the wheels 38 and40. The guide 94 engages with the under side of one of the rollers 43,while'the-guide 96 engages with the upper side of the other roller 43,as best shown in Fig. 8. The guides 94 and 96 thus steady the bottlecarriers in their passage from the wheel 38 to the wheel 40. One of thearms 72 hereinbefore described is provided with a downward extension 98,as shown in detail in Fig. 9. This downwardextension 98 is provided witha separate end 99 pivoted to the main part at 100 so as to swingin'onedirection but to be incapable of movement in the oppositedirection. As the disk.71 rotates, this end 98 can swing on its pivot100 -when the said part strikes one of the projections 20 on the plates16.

When, however, the carrier composed of the plates 16 is moved so as tocause one of the fingers 20 to strike theend 98, will be incapable ofmovement relative to the main part, and

thus the disk 71 will be rotated for a purpose hereinafter tobedescribed.

The operation of my machine is as follows: The bottles 89 are conveyedin the receiver 85 through the chute 91 in .the usual way, The motor 30,being normally in connection with the conveyer 39, rotates thisconveyer. As the bottle holders 47 approach the receiver, the sleeves 45are extended by means of the-engagement of the Wedge 93 with the roller56. position to pass through the receiver 85 and remove therefrom abottle, as best shown in Fig. 1. As the-bottle is carried forward, itcomes into engagement with one of the mags s soon as the forward end ofthe bottom of the cradle 47 carrying the roller 62 comes in contact withthe-last bottle set up on the, support 16, the cradle will be rockedupon its pivot so as to disengage the pin 50 from .the detent 51. Thecoil spring 52 will now re. tract the cradle and the contact of theabutment 60 with the bottle will discharge the bottle from the holderand place it upon the carrier 16. When this action has taken place therequired number of times to set up one row of bottles on the carrier 16,the wheel 7 4 will be moved through acomplete revolution and will causethe arm 76 to engage with the sliding member 77 and. thuscomplete thecontact through the circuit 86. This will cause the core 35 to be drawnintofithesolen- The cradle 47 is thus brought in oid 36 against the pullof the spring 33 and thus move the clutch member 2-7 out of engagementwith the clutch member 25 and into engagement with the clutch member 26.This will stop the carrier 39 and start the carrier 16. Soon, however,after the carrier has started to move one of the projecting fingerpieces 20 will come into engagement with the lower end oi the projection98 and cause a sulllcient further movement in the dish 71 to disengagethe arm 7 6 from the slide '77 and thus break the circuit. The partswill now be in position to set up a second row of bottles. The aboveoperation is repeated until the carrier 16 is completely filled.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. In a carrying and setting up machine, the combination with aconveyer, of a holder for the article to be carried mounted on saidconveyer, an abutment for said holder, and means for moving said holderlaterally to cause said abutment to discharge the article.

2 In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with aconveyer, of a holder for the article to be conveyed tiltingly mountedon said conveyer, an abutment for said holder, and means controlled bythe tilting of said'holder for causing relative movement between saidholder and abutment to discharge the article.

3. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with aconveyer, of a spring mounted holder on said conveyer for the article tobe carried, an abutment for said holder, and means for releasing saidholder to discharge the article.

4 In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with an endlessconveyer, of a spring mounted holder on said conveyer for the article tobe carried, an abutment for said holder, and means for releasing saidholder to discharge the article.

5. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a second conveyer moving at an angle to said firstconveyer, a spring mounted-holder on said first conveyer for the articleto be carried, an abutment for said holder, and means for releasing saidholder to discharge the article on said second conveyer.

6. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a second conveyer at right angles to and below saidfirst conveyer, a spring mounted holder on said first conveyer for thearticle to be conveyed, an abutment for said holder, and means forreleasing said holder to discharge the article on said second conveyer.

7. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a tilting spring mounted holder on said conveyerfor the article to be conveyed, an abutment for said holder, and meansfor tilting said holder to release the same and discharge the article.

8. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a second conveyer moving at an angle to said firstconveyer, a tilting spring mounted holder on said first conveyer, for.the article to be conveyed, an abutment for said holder, and means fortilting said holder to release the same and discharge the article onsaid second conveyer.

9. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a second conveyermoving at right angles to andbelow said first conveyer, a tilting spring mounted holder on said firstconveyer for the article to be carried, an abutment for said holder, andmeans for tilting said holder to release the same and discharge thearticle on said second conveyer.

10. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of holders on said conveyer for the articles to beconveyed, a rotary member provided with arms extending into the path ofsaid holders, a second conveyer, means controlled by said rotary memberfor shifting the movement from said first to said second conveyer, andprojections carried by said second conveyer and adapted to actuate saidrotary member to shift the movement of said first conveyer.

11. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a holder on said conveyer, a receptacle for thearticle through which said holder passes whereby said holder extractsthe ar-. ticle from said receptacle, an abutment for said holder, andmeans for causing relative movement between said holder and abutment todischarge the article.

12. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a holder for said conveyer, a receptacle for thearticle through which said holder passes whereby said holder extractsthe article from said receptacle, an abutment for said holder, and meansfor moving said holder to discharge the article.

13. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a receiver having a curved spring mounted bufferfor the article, and a holder on said conveyer adapted to pass throughsaid receiver and provided with a portion adapted to pass between saidbutler and the article.

14. In a conveying and setting up machine, the combination with anendless conveyer, of a receiver having a curved spring mounted butlerfor the article, a spring mounted holder on said conveyer adapted to.pass through said receiver and provided with a portion. adapted to passbetween said bull'er and the article, an abutmeni feris ifihblder; andmeans for causin r Iati e "inoyefilent v between-said holdexf' veyer, ofa, receiver for thesrticle, a spring mounted holder on said conveyeradapted to 'pass through said receiver'andremove the arlinks endmeansfor setting said holder befol 'e 1i ses through the said receiver.-

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t'e'stimonywhereofllhave hereunto set niy hand and a'fiuxed my s'eal inthe presence of the two subscribing witnesses; HARRY J'.ST1E'BEL.Witnesses:

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